Most dense objects drop like a rock, at any moment, no matter their horizontal speed (yes, some aerodynamic forces in spinning bullets / doesn't change things drastically / it's not about near orbital velocities). I'm not sure if basic vector addition should be described in such dramatic way as you do...;p
Keep in mind, this round is spinning, so the blast will go in all directions. It is not possible to tell the bullet to fire downwards when over the target.
Actually seems quite possible - if it spins fast enough (and it does count the spins very precisely already), the "window" of effective fire happening once per revolution might be enough. The hard part would be making a shaped charge with fragments on one side while carefully maintaining stability. But as a bonus it could be also more effective when firing sideways, behind a corner.
It doesn't even have to matter much; "weapons that are more than one technological generation behind the curve in other words" isn't everything, doesn't have to be bad at all.
Checking all current manufacturers and users of RPG-7 might be revealing (or, though it's a different example but similar in spirit to AK47 - M2 Browning?)
It doesn't have to be about pure local technology, BTW (don't Iran and India toy with Soviet/Russian-derived supersonic antiship missiles? Iran with Skval torpedoes?) - Saudi Arabia already has comparable weapon - and while they are technically "allies", it's in style of Pakistani mess or Iranian shah regime.
You know, that's actually quite hilarious in the context of, supported by him, Iranian coup d'etat which happened only few months later (or other CIA sponsored coup d'etat actions generally)
How much use it would have in North korea is anyone's guess...
Probably relatively little, at least when compared to South Korean, ~3x less expensive, mostly equivalent weapon that's in service (might even be used more in Afghanistan already)
...hope that an improvement like this actually does allow the soldiers to better target the real bad guys and not civilians as well as protect themselves from compromising situations.
You know, from the description it seems that this weapon is fabulous at killing people who are hiding behind cover when there's some shooting nearby, people which can't be seen clearly...
Even is those will be enemy combatants often enough, that still doesn't preclude nearby civilians as you point out later.
It's really curious. Similar to you, also iPod here (and in a place where they are far from common / with disproportional price premiums attached)...but it would be hard for me to justify another product from them.
Product which would almost certainly be quite nice (heck - I sometimes, still, correct inaccuracies about them), but over the last ~year Apple has somehow managed to become simply off-putting.
Fully supported port is also on WinMob (Nokia doesn't make any of those; and not only Nokia makes Symbian and Meego devices BTW) - and it's portable enough to have an experimental port on every platform, done by hobbyists...
Or you can just provide Qt?... (aren't the UIs too far apart to be not scary to any user anyway / do you have something which demonstrates how does it work in practice?)
...their computers are comparably priced (just you have to buy more features than you may want or need), their ipods are very competitively (if not more cheaply) priced, the iphone is as well. remember how fast the iPod and iPhone prices came down as they marched towards acceptance? iPhones for 400 dollars would be quite a bit more profitable, they just wouldn't sell anywhere near as much as iPhones for 100 and 200 dollars.
Not quite... one look at those stats (Part 2, snapshots of top20 countries worldwide), or at local per-country browser stats (Statcounter has decent ones) doesn't suggest competitive prices on the part of Apple - having notable presence only in few atypical (but vocal and visible) regions.
As was the case with iPods - even in my decently prosperous late EU memberstate, I can probably count the occasions when I've seen one on the fingers of one hand (well, that excludes my iPod of course). Exorbitant prices, in relation to what was popular (initially things in style of S1 players; and for a few years - phones, mostly so called "feature phones"), were a major part of that. CIS, Middle East, SE Asia, Africa, Latin America are generally notably less prosperous.
100 and 200 dollars is not their price...
PS. Generally, riddle me this: Slashdot seems overall quite disgusted by supposedly dysfunctional stock market, "investors" and their machinations. But why do we forget those when actually discussing company valuations?... (more, we marvel at it!) While for example ignoring who has and who doesn't have manufacturing facilities, or who actually contributes greatly to major shifts in the world (there are 5+ billion mobile subscribers now; iPhones among 1-2% of them...) - which, funnily enough, will provide great opportunities for investment.
Yes, upper income bracket. 14.7 million out of 340 million units in that Q3. A bit over 4% (of sales, not of installed based - the latter won't be anywhere near for some time, Apple demographic is typically on contracts / changing phones quite regularly; the rule throughout the world is different)
BTW, when looking at growth in additional number of units shipped (everything else is deceiving when players have wildly different installed bases) - Symbian is at the top. Growths don't have to be strictly about easting others when whole market expands.
Things "differentiating" Apple mean also they practically don't exist in most of the world... that said, yes, not bothering about "lesser" people in "lesser" places can be profitable.
As far as we can tell now, as far as current state of knowledge goes: an absolute beginning does logically follow from observation and math - if you really want to redefine common sense / intuition (again, semantics...) to mean that.
Is consistent will lack of time, too, as far as we can tell... And it doesn't matter beyond the light cone of visible universe.
Wide gaps in the actual logic of abrahamic mythologies (that's not only about Christians after all) don't change how their average (that's important when it comes to "common sense") follower doesn't have much of a problem with accepting the concept at hand (at least Jahweh/Elohim/Adonai is presented as "beyond", BTW) Probably why the modern view largely originates from a Catholic priest...
But you give too much credit to other mythologies (NVM how prematurely it would be) - it's almost a binary choice, yes/no. No wonder how some view it differently than others, while having most stuff incorrectly anyway / based on nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm marveled at some aspects of Buddhism, but... (particularly how it basically seems to succeed in convincing its adherents of outright valuing the inevitable cessation of existence, a monumental achievement; but the mythological "envelope" is almost certainly only a useful mean to an end, at best - even if seen as a metaphor for our lack of uniqueness and simply being part of societal progress)
'We should default,' said a retired union worker, 'the idea that the workers of this country should pay for the gambling of the billionaires is disgusting.
Yes, the "billionaires" lead the whole pack, and all that. However - not many of the proles stop to look around and wonder what brings the semi-dream around them while it lasts - but they do enjoy it. And cherish promises.
Ha! They go further to the East!;p (don't ask me what happens when they hit Far East of Russia - but they are probably disintegrating by then)
But seriously, it's probably not such a big issue - there's always somebody willing to buy your previous car. Or - if there isn't, that car has probably done its job.
Yeah, 1616 is nice - but I still think 1100 has the nicest feel to it, when it comes to this class;) (unfortunately - I quickly checked and prices on European eBay are still ridiculous; weird, at the local auction site that I have here the myth has passed / they can be had for what is ~6 Euro)
(I'm horrible with those late replies / "I think I missed something"... lo and behold, there it is)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, it's always "them"...
Out of all the societies throughout the world, which one do you think your system of governance is a reflection of?
If you are innocent, you have no reason to hide.
Most dense objects drop like a rock, at any moment, no matter their horizontal speed (yes, some aerodynamic forces in spinning bullets / doesn't change things drastically / it's not about near orbital velocities). I'm not sure if basic vector addition should be described in such dramatic way as you do... ;p
Keep in mind, this round is spinning, so the blast will go in all directions. It is not possible to tell the bullet to fire downwards when over the target.
Actually seems quite possible - if it spins fast enough (and it does count the spins very precisely already), the "window" of effective fire happening once per revolution might be enough. The hard part would be making a shaped charge with fragments on one side while carefully maintaining stability. But as a bonus it could be also more effective when firing sideways, behind a corner.
It doesn't even have to matter much; "weapons that are more than one technological generation behind the curve in other words" isn't everything, doesn't have to be bad at all.
Checking all current manufacturers and users of RPG-7 might be revealing (or, though it's a different example but similar in spirit to AK47 - M2 Browning?)
It doesn't have to be about pure local technology, BTW (don't Iran and India toy with Soviet/Russian-derived supersonic antiship missiles? Iran with Skval torpedoes?) - Saudi Arabia already has comparable weapon - and while they are technically "allies", it's in style of Pakistani mess or Iranian shah regime.
Koreans already have quite comparable weapon in service, apparently ~3 less expensive.
You know, that's actually quite hilarious in the context of, supported by him, Iranian coup d'etat which happened only few months later (or other CIA sponsored coup d'etat actions generally)
How much use it would have in North korea is anyone's guess...
Probably relatively little, at least when compared to South Korean, ~3x less expensive, mostly equivalent weapon that's in service (might even be used more in Afghanistan already)
...hope that an improvement like this actually does allow the soldiers to better target the real bad guys and not civilians as well as protect themselves from compromising situations.
You know, from the description it seems that this weapon is fabulous at killing people who are hiding behind cover when there's some shooting nearby, people which can't be seen clearly...
Even is those will be enemy combatants often enough, that still doesn't preclude nearby civilians as you point out later.
Don't call it a rifle - because it's a grenade launcher?
Where would "We want inflated number of apps" be gone?
It's really curious. Similar to you, also iPod here (and in a place where they are far from common / with disproportional price premiums attached)...but it would be hard for me to justify another product from them.
Product which would almost certainly be quite nice (heck - I sometimes, still, correct inaccuracies about them), but over the last ~year Apple has somehow managed to become simply off-putting.
...recreating something done closer to XIX than to XXI century. Very much DIY back then, too.
Fully supported port is also on WinMob (Nokia doesn't make any of those; and not only Nokia makes Symbian and Meego devices BTW) - and it's portable enough to have an experimental port on every platform, done by hobbyists...
Or you can just provide Qt?... (aren't the UIs too far apart to be not scary to any user anyway / do you have something which demonstrates how does it work in practice?)
...Also, cancerous.
Might be not much of a problem, in the range of a lifespan typical for a mouse. For us OTOH...
But it's good to see that biological neural networks being part of computer known as Earth work on upgrades of their true rulers.
w8, what about your sig? ;)
...their computers are comparably priced (just you have to buy more features than you may want or need), their ipods are very competitively (if not more cheaply) priced, the iphone is as well. remember how fast the iPod and iPhone prices came down as they marched towards acceptance? iPhones for 400 dollars would be quite a bit more profitable, they just wouldn't sell anywhere near as much as iPhones for 100 and 200 dollars.
Not quite... one look at those stats (Part 2, snapshots of top20 countries worldwide), or at local per-country browser stats (Statcounter has decent ones) doesn't suggest competitive prices on the part of Apple - having notable presence only in few atypical (but vocal and visible) regions.
As was the case with iPods - even in my decently prosperous late EU memberstate, I can probably count the occasions when I've seen one on the fingers of one hand (well, that excludes my iPod of course). Exorbitant prices, in relation to what was popular (initially things in style of S1 players; and for a few years - phones, mostly so called "feature phones"), were a major part of that. CIS, Middle East, SE Asia, Africa, Latin America are generally notably less prosperous.
100 and 200 dollars is not their price...
PS. Generally, riddle me this: Slashdot seems overall quite disgusted by supposedly dysfunctional stock market, "investors" and their machinations. But why do we forget those when actually discussing company valuations?... (more, we marvel at it!) While for example ignoring who has and who doesn't have manufacturing facilities, or who actually contributes greatly to major shifts in the world (there are 5+ billion mobile subscribers now; iPhones among 1-2% of them...) - which, funnily enough, will provide great opportunities for investment.
Yes, upper income bracket. 14.7 million out of 340 million units in that Q3. A bit over 4% (of sales, not of installed based - the latter won't be anywhere near for some time, Apple demographic is typically on contracts / changing phones quite regularly; the rule throughout the world is different)
BTW, when looking at growth in additional number of units shipped (everything else is deceiving when players have wildly different installed bases) - Symbian is at the top. Growths don't have to be strictly about easting others when whole market expands.
Things "differentiating" Apple mean also they practically don't exist in most of the world... that said, yes, not bothering about "lesser" people in "lesser" places can be profitable.
I wonder what it's like in Sparta...
Yes, more completely unsustainable spending is the way, more! (and so far ignoring from where the payloads are supposed to come from)
Remind me again - how that moon effort is going along? How Buran/Energia program contributed to the prosperity of the Soviet Union?
As far as we can tell now, as far as current state of knowledge goes: an absolute beginning does logically follow from observation and math - if you really want to redefine common sense / intuition (again, semantics...) to mean that.
Is consistent will lack of time, too, as far as we can tell... And it doesn't matter beyond the light cone of visible universe.
Wide gaps in the actual logic of abrahamic mythologies (that's not only about Christians after all) don't change how their average (that's important when it comes to "common sense") follower doesn't have much of a problem with accepting the concept at hand (at least Jahweh/Elohim/Adonai is presented as "beyond", BTW) Probably why the modern view largely originates from a Catholic priest...
But you give too much credit to other mythologies (NVM how prematurely it would be) - it's almost a binary choice, yes/no. No wonder how some view it differently than others, while having most stuff incorrectly anyway / based on nothing. Don't get me wrong, I'm marveled at some aspects of Buddhism, but... (particularly how it basically seems to succeed in convincing its adherents of outright valuing the inevitable cessation of existence, a monumental achievement; but the mythological "envelope" is almost certainly only a useful mean to an end, at best - even if seen as a metaphor for our lack of uniqueness and simply being part of societal progress)
'We should default,' said a retired union worker, 'the idea that the workers of this country should pay for the gambling of the billionaires is disgusting.
Yes, the "billionaires" lead the whole pack, and all that. However - not many of the proles stop to look around and wonder what brings the semi-dream around them while it lasts - but they do enjoy it. And cherish promises.
That doesn't go only for the Irish of course.
There were times when you cherished such "turbulent" software... (just saying, not merely its characteristics had to change)
Ha! They go further to the East! ;p (don't ask me what happens when they hit Far East of Russia - but they are probably disintegrating by then)
But seriously, it's probably not such a big issue - there's always somebody willing to buy your previous car. Or - if there isn't, that car has probably done its job.
Yeah, 1616 is nice - but I still think 1100 has the nicest feel to it, when it comes to this class ;) (unfortunately - I quickly checked and prices on European eBay are still ridiculous; weird, at the local auction site that I have here the myth has passed / they can be had for what is ~6 Euro)
(I'm horrible with those late replies / "I think I missed something"... lo and behold, there it is)